Gin-saw cleaner.



ROBERT L. HENDERSON, OF WEST, TEXAS.

GIN-SAW CLEANER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 18, 1906.

Application filed July 7,1906. Serial No. 325,180.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, ROBERT L. HENDER- soN, a citizen of the United States, residing at West, in the county of McLennan and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Gin-Saw Cleaner, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to gin-saw cleaners; and it consists in the novelconstruction and arrangement of its parts, as hereinafter shown and described.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and effective cleaner adapted to remove the lint from the teeth of gin-saws. Frequently such saws have to operate upon the cotton-bulbs when the same are damp, and when this is the case there is a great tendency upon the part of the lint to adhere to the teeth of the saws, and consequently reduce their effectiveness.

The present invention provides a device which may be easily and readily applied to and detached from a gin and which is provided with a series of spring-cleaners, which are adapted to hear at their edges against the sides of the saw-teeth. The saws are then revolved slowly in the direction opposite to that in which they revolved when ginning, and the edges of the cleaners push the lint away from the teeth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a set of saws with the cleaner applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of one of the cleaners applied to the saws. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view of the upper portion of the gin, showing the cleaner applied thereto.

The bar 1 is adapted to fit within the ends of the gin and is provided at its ends with the hooks 2 2, which engage the upper edges of the ends of the gin. The hooks 3 3 are provided and are adapted to extend substantially in a horizontal direction and engage eyes 3, provided at the breast of the gin. The collars 4 4 are slidably mounted upon the bar 1 and are adapted to rotate thereon. The studs 5 5 depend from the collars 4 4L and at their lower ends support the pipe 6. The upper ends of the pins 7 7 are screwed to the said pipe 6, and the lower ends of the said pins are provided with the enlarged heads or collars 8.

The saw cleaners or scrapers 9 consist of the central substantially cylindrical portion 10, whichisurroundsgand{receives the pin 7 and which merges into forwardly and outwardly curved wing portions 11 11. The lower end of,the said portion 10 rests upon the head 8. The said portions 11 are oppositely disposed to each other and form wings I which bear at their ends against the sides and edges of the gin-saws 12. The pipe 6 is provided with a handle 13. The said pipe may be of any desired length and may be fitted with any number of pins 7 and their attachments. However, in practice it is found convenient to make the pipe 6 about one-half the length of the shaft upon which the saws 12 are mounted and provide the same with sufiicient attachments to clean one-half of the set of saws at one operation. The said pipe 6 is then swung back, using the sleeves 4 as fulcrum-points, and when the ends of the wings 11 of the cleaner 9 are moved beyond the peripheries of the saws 12 the said sleeves 4 are moved laterally along the bar 1 and the cleaners 9 are brought into contact with the saws 12 at the other end of the shaft supporting the same.

To clean the saws, the shaft upon which they are mounted is rotated slowly in the opposite direction to which the said shaft rotates during the operation of ginning. When the saws of one gin have been cleaned, the attachment may be removed and applied to the saws of another gin, and so on throughout the battery. 7

Having described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A gin-saw cleaner comprising a strip of metal formed with a cylindrical portion and extending wings located at the ends of said cylindrical portion and a supporting means entering the said cylindrical portion.

2. A gin-saw cleaner comprising a bar, sleeves mounted for rotation upon said bar, a second bar fixed with relation to said sleeves, a series of pins carried by said second bar, and gin-saw cleaners carried by said pins.

3. A gin-saw cleaner comprising a bar, hooks attached to the bar and adapted to engage portions of the frame of the gin, sleeves mounted for rotation on said bar, a second bar fixed with relation to said sleeves, pins carried by said second bar, and gin-saw cleaners mounted upon said pins.

4. A gin-saw cleaner comprising a bar ICO adapted to be attached to the frame of the my own I have hereto aflixed my signature in gin, sleeves sli-idibly mounteg and efiicjlcargted tfl the presence of two Witnesses. rotate on sai ar, a secon bar e Wit relation to said sleeves, pins carried by said ROBERT HENDERSON 5 second bar, and gin-saw cleaners attached to Witnesses:

said pins. S. B. JoNEs, In testimony that I claim the foregoing as C. T. FIELD. 

